Two years ago, Ryan Girdusky was a New York-based reporter for conservative news sites, Tiffany Justice was a former Florida school board member and mother of four school-aged children, and Steve Maxwell was focused on growing his agricultural software business across the Southeast. None had experience in orchestrating political advocacy, recruiting candidates to run for public office, or financing elections on a coordinated, national scale. But when anger over closed schools and pandemic restrictions galvanized a parents’ rights movement in spring 2020, Girdusky, Justice, and Maxwell were among chief influencers in spurring the grassroots formation of more than 200 parents groups in school districts across the country, according to a Washington Post canvass. They have since grown that seminal groundswell into sustained campaigns to eliminate vestiges of Critical Race Theory from K-12 curriculum and ensure materials are “age-appropriate,” demanding books deemed “inappropriate” be pulled from school shelves; and removing targeted …